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Yekokeb Berhan Program for Highly Vulnerable Children

Yekokeb Berhan Program for Highly Vulnerable Children: Nigate Makes Baskets for Sale

Nigate Asmamaw, 19, in Chilga Town was unable to provide for herself and her daughter due to a disability. The Yekokeb Berhan Program for Highly Vulnerable Children enrolled her in a vocational training program, and now she is making baskets for sale. Photo credit: Nardos Mengesha, FHI 360.

Yekokeb Berhan Program for Highly Vulnerable Children: Adebo Sells Vegetables at a Local Market

Adebo Berta, a widow and mother of four children, sells vegetables at a local market just few meters from her house. Adebo is a member of a community saving and self-help group through Yekokeb Berhan. Photo credit: Nardos Mengesha, FHI 360.

Yekokeb Berhan Program for Highly Vulnerable Children: Mimi Playing With Her Younger Brother Abu

Two years ago, Abu almost died from a combination of malaria and meningitis. The family received training, economic strengthening, and parenting education. Now, both children are back in school and their mother works in a small restaurant. Photo credit: WLP Film Production and Advertising PLC.

Yekokeb Berhan Program for Highly Vulnerable Children: Child Development Center in Ziway

One of two early childhood development centers established through resource mobilization by community leaders in Ziway, in the Rift Valley, with the help of Yekokeb Berhan’s implementing partner, MAEDOT. Photo credit: Nardos Mengesha, FHI 360.

Yekokeb Berhan Program for Highly Vulnerable Children: Belaynesh Sells Shameta by the Road

Belaynesh Bentie has benefited from the economic strengthening component of Yekokeb Berhan's assistance. She sells a traditional Ethiopian drink called shameta by the road to daily laborers in Addis Ababa. Photo credit: Nardos Mengesha, FHI 360.

Yekokeb Berhan Program for Highly Vulnerable Children: PermaGardening Training

PermaGardening training built the capacity of implementing partners on nutrition security and empowerment so that they train and assist families of highly vulnerable children to produce vegetables in a small garden in a sustainable manner. Photo credit: Bernd Kiekebusch.

Yekokeb Berhan Program for Highly Vulnerable Children: Atsede Sells Fruit by the Road

Atsede, an HIV positive woman with two children, benefited from economic strengthening training of USAID’s Yekokeb Berhan activity. She sells fruits by the road. Photo credit: WLP Film Production and Advertising PLC.

Yekokeb Berhan Program for Highly Vulnerable Children: Getahun Attends School for the First Time

Fifteen-year-old Getahun is attending school the first time. Multiple disabilities confined him at home, but now, after receiving crutches and wheelchairs through linkages created by the USAID activity, he is attending special needs education. Photo credit: Karen Ottoni, USAID Ethiopia.

Yekokeb Berhan Program for Highly Vulnerable Children: Zenebech's Children

Zenebech Zerihun had given away her eldest daughter to work as a servant and was about to do the same with her younger children

Zenebech Zerihun had given away her eldest daughter to work as a servant and was about to do the same with her two younger children. With training and support from USAID, she has now started to earn a living and has brought her oldest child back home. Photo credit: WLP Film Production and Advertising PLC.

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